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A Growing Number of ‘Repair Cafes’ Are Popping Up Around the World to Curb Consumer Waste - Inside Climate News
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Wym? Many LED lights have components on them that fail waaaaaay before the diode and could certainly be designed to last longer
At one point I invested in a $10 light bulb from Home Depot because the packaging assured me that it would last for years and years and so it was actually better than the big packages of ones that were cheap. It stopped working in a few weeks. I went back and asked one of their valued team members about it, and he said maybe the "board" on it "went out," which apparently happens to them a lot.
I kind of knew when I bought it that it was bullshit, but I didn't expect it to be such bullshit.
CFL turned out to be a massive lie/scam.
Pay anywhere from 8x-50x more per bulb... yeah the individual LEDs won't die but the device itself is usually fried in 3 months. Meanwhile I've got $0.25 incandescent bulbs that are 10 years old.
The potential "energy savings" are always trumpeted from the rooftops, but in the actual application you end up spending more because the constant waste/replace cycle vastly offsets any trivial amount of electricity saved.